#M1 mac check ssd health upgrade#

So, the connector argument isn't enough under the circumstances to justify soldering the SSD. Computers for vehicle use would be better served by soldered but with the light weight and tight fit of M.2, I'd wager it wouldn't be phased. But when is this a thing for end users? It isn't. When cables get plugged in over and over again or there are shocks, soldering is best. ||| In all the decades I've worked with drives and cables, connector integrity and failure rate was never a significant factor and a reason to move away from it. Surface-mount soldered connections-once the changes wrought by RoHS were mostly sorted-are vastly more reliable than are mechanical connectors. Apple still has these offices (Apple Stores, and Authorized Repair Providers), but they still board-swap and box-swap and send a whole lot back of work to Apple repair depots. The service and repair business has been consolidating for decades, and most vendors have fewer or have outsourced their own hardware service offices.

Motorola and other vendors re-designed their products to reduce flex and connectors and other failure-prone features. Some ripples around bad caps and adopting to RoHS materials requirements aside, newer gear is vastly more reliable than that of decades past. But Field repair techs stopped carrying rosin and the rest decades ago, stopped the related hardware troubleshooting and circuit diagram training, started carrying spare boards, and the parts went to central depots for repair or for recycling. Some Motorola radio gear (1970s, 1980s) used to break certain solder joints all the time. I well remember doing wire-wrap and later solder repairs too, and that got time- and cost-prohibitive. There is no separate RAM, it’s co-resident with the cores. With M1, the various processor codes and the memory are on the same carrier.

That’s about the exact opposite direction from longstanding industry trends toward increased integration and decreased parts and interconnections, and decreased repairs. I get that people here mostly defend Apple so that's fine. Electronics do fail, maybe not at soldering joints specifically, but certainly the parts soldered do. For the consumer, that may not be so cost effective. It also means that to make a repair, many times an entire board will have to be replaced simply because it's easier. But that is also permanent in other ways like being more difficult to repair. Sure, I will give those who argue soldering is better over a physical connection. I just do not find it cost effective to have to replace an entire board because one part soldered is defective such as a RAM module, WiFi card, or even storage. There are comparatively fewer of us disassembling and repairing or upgrading our gear with each passing year too, and this realization goes back decades.Īnd the field-replaceable units are getting both bigger and fewer as integration increases, and depot service and replacement and recycling becoming ever more common.Īgain, as they may or may not see it posted here, send your feedback directly to Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

#M1 mac check ssd health upgrade#

That you are among the few folks that want to disassemble and upgrade your device later seems likely, and whether that’s to save money with third-party add-on gear, or because you missed and under specified your purchase, or for ecological and better recycling, or whatever. There’s a reason why a classic computer troubleshooting technique is to eject and re-seat all socketed system components, and it’s not because SMT connections fail.